Down Warmongers!

Denied other halls by the government
and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace
Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still
redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a
big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a
flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a
battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs.

The sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo
Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of
Workers. An old...